gréasach

Irish

Etymology 1

From gréas (“ornamental work; ornament, ornamentation; decorative design, pattern, figure; needlework, embroidery”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

gréasach (genitive singular masculine gréasaigh, genitive singular feminine gréasaí, plural gréasacha, not comparable)

1. patterned, embroidered, ornamented
2. skilled in embroidery

Etymology 2

From Old Irish grésach (“lasting, perpetual, constant, habitual”, adjective). Compare de ghréas (“habitually, continually, perpetually”).

Adjective

gréasach (genitive singular masculine gréasaigh, genitive singular feminine gréasaí, plural gréasacha, not comparable)

1. (literary) habitual, continual, perpetual

Declension

Declension of gréasach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	gréasach	ghréasach	gréasacha; ghréasacha²
Vocative	ghréasaigh		gréasacha
Genitive		gréasaí	gréasacha	gréasach
Dative	gréasach; ghréasach¹	ghréasach; ghréasaigh (archaic)	gréasacha; ghréasacha²
Comparative	níos gréasaí
Superlative	is gréasaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gréasach	ghréasach	ngréasach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gréasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “grésach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language